Visual Trademark - A Blog By CJ Mills

In the middle of all the stress surrounding Asher lately, I find it important to laugh along the way.  Andrea and I have been trying to live as normally as we can the past few days - after all, we’ve got another child that needs our attention.  The other night, while looking up new diaper [...]

A great mentor, and even greater friend, sent me the below, summarized prayer by Teresa of Avila. He used this prayer while going through his own life storm….
Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything passes.
Patience gains all.
God alone is enough.
I don’t know about you, but the above seems hard on any normal day, let [...]

Yesterday was met with some bad news.  Some of Asher’s test results (as outlined here) came back negative.  The part that I’m having a hard time dealing with is not knowing if the negative results are really something to worry about or not.  The doc now wants to run a more detailed test to see [...]

I have recently come in contact with a few new friends through this blog.  One of them, Scott, posted this comment in response to the news that Asher was not coming home:
I am standing in agreement that this is only a minor delay. I receive that, and am so thankful that this delay is short. [...]

My wife is not one to be in front of a crowd.  Even through a blog, she still remains shy; however, since she was the one in the front row of this circus today, I asked that she give you all a run down of what happened today.
Asher’s temperature dropped from 98.2 to 97.4 in [...]

I’ll try to give you all a better run down of what happened between yesterday’s post and this one, but for now, I’ll gt straight to the point - Asher ain’t coming home (always wanted to use that word in a post).
Only a few hours away from being officially released (after we stayed overnight in [...]

I don’t have much time to post here, but wanted to let you all know that Andrea and I will be staying overnight at the hospital with Asher.  They are a little concerned about sleep apnea and want us to stay overnight to learn how to manage the machines he will be hooked up to [...]

Don’t get too excited - we aren’t there yet, but we do have some good news.  Asher was able to hold his temperature on his own the entire night outside of the incubator!  As you may know, this is the last step he needs to climb before the hospital will release him. As part of [...]

Below are the slides I designed for Gary’s sermon today.  Great sermon around Philippians 2:5-11.

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[creative chaos]

Only now, as a Father, can I truly appreciate everything my dad did (and does) for me.  Thanks for it all, Dad!

Part of Stats Suck Sunday.